Revision as of 12:54, 27 April 2014

Prerequisites

ZLib

Libffi

libffi is the Portable Foreign Function Interface Library. It is an interface that allows code written in one language to call code written in another language.

wget ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/libffi-3.0.13.tar.gz
tar -xzf libffi-3.0.13.tar.gz
cd libffi-3.0.13/
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi  
make
make install

GLib

GLib is part of the GTK+ Project

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.40/glib-2.40.0.tar.xz
tar -xJf glib-2.40.0.tar.xz
cd glib-2.40.0
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/pkgconfig  glib_cv_stack_grows=no glib_cv_uscore=yes ac_cv_func_posix_getpwuid_r=yes ac_cv_func_posix_getgrgid_r=yes 
make
make install

The Expat XML Parser

Expat is an XML parser library written in C and is the only required dependency for the D-Bus daemon.

Download, build and install:

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/files/expat/2.1.0/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf expat-2.1.0.tar.gz 
cd expat-2.1.0/
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi
make
make install

D-Bus

D-Bus is a message bus system.

Download, build and install:

wget http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.8.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf dbus-1.8.0.tar.gz
cd dbus-1.8.0/
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi
make
make install

BlueZ

BlueZ is the official Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux and include tools such as hciattach, hciconfig, hcitool and rfcomm

BlueZ 5.18 requires GLib >= 2.28, D-Bus >= 1.6 and libudev >= 143. When these prerequisites are meet, you can download, build and install BlueZ using:

wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/bluez-5.18.tar.xz
tar -xJf bluez-5.18.tar.xz
cd bluez-5.18
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix= PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/pkgconfig 
make
make install